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If you had the wedding photos in question professionally taken, it might be that the photographer, if they're still around, might have copies. I don't know whether they retain copies, but I suppose asking can't hurt.

This place says up to a year:

https://www.wanderlustportraits.com/how-long-photographers-keep-photos/

Photographers typically keep photos of their clients for a minimum of 90 days and up to a full year as part of standard practice; however, if this is important to you, review the contract and ask your professional.

This guy says forever:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WeddingPhotography/comments/96ckow/how_long_do_you_hold_on_past_wedding_photos/

I keep ALL files on two 16tb drives drives. Those drives never get wiped and I will always keep two copies even when they fill up. One internal on sata for reference and one off site. When I first started shouting, I was cheap and deleted RAWs and just kept high res jpegs. I have clients coming back for albums and I am stuck re-editing the jpegs to match in the albums. Lesson learned. If you do want to consolidate, then keep the RAWs of the editor we jpegs and delete the unused. But that’s more hassle than the cost to store unused raws. You can also rely on cloud source but you never know if you’ll ever switch cloud servers or move onto another business on want to stop paying cloud fees. For the high volume photographers it becomes wise to invest in tape drives. HDD have lives of 10 years. So eventually all those old drives will need to be transferred to newer drives. Budget this into your bottom line

Isle of Wight council has been charged £29,000 per week for the placement in a semi-detached house leased by the local authority, at which the boy was the only resident.

Remarking on the cost to the public purse, a judge said: “You could send him to Disney[land] Paris for a month and save some money.”

If you're including housing and getting (expensive) on-Disneyland resort housing, it doesn't look like Disneyland Paris will actually let you book a room for an unaccompanied child.

I was consolidating data from multiple old drives before a major move—drives I had to discard due to space and relocation constraints. The plan was simple: upload to OneDrive, then transfer to a new drive later.

I'm assuming that the reason that he didn't just do the transfer to a new drive instead of to OneDrive (which seems like it'd be more-straightforward) is because the new drive was going to also be a system disk, not just hold his data.

I think that it would have been a good idea to get a second new drive and have done that transfer just so that there's a backup. I mean, it doesn't really sound like the user was planning to wind up with a backup of his data, or for that matter, that he had a backup to start with.

Maybe OneDrive locking the account was unexpected, but drives can fail or be inadvertently erased or whatever. If you've got thirty years of irreplaceable data that you really badly want to keep, I'd want to have more than one copy of it. The cost of a drive to store it is not large compared to the cost involved in producing said data.

I'm pretty sure that it defaults to best quality.

goes looking at man page

           By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't  pass  any  options.   This  is  generally
       equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (--audio-multistreams),
       the  default  format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp
       to stream to stdout (-o -), the default becomes -f best/bestvideo+bestaudio.


  

So I think that it should normally pull down the best audio unless you get into some situation where YouTube doesn't offer a format that simultaneously has the combination of highest audio quality with the highest video quality; if it has to do so to get the highest video quality then, it'll sacrifice audio quality.

EDIT: Hmm. I could have sworn that there was more text about prioritizing relative audio and video quality at one point in the man page, but I don't see anything there now. Maybe it can just always get the best audio quality, regardless of video quality, can pull 'em entirely separately.

Through his online pseudonym, “White Tiger,” the suspect preyed on desperate children in online forums, including those discussing suicide, dpa reported. Investigators believe he exploited their vulnerabilities, forcing them to create pornographic and violent recordings where they injured themselves to the point of bleeding during live chats.

The man made recordings of the acts to keep as trophies, investigators said, and used them as leverage against the victims by threatening to publish them unless the children committed even more self-harm on camera.

The man is suspected of committing 120 crimes against eight victims, ages 11 to 15, who were from Germany, England, Canada and the U.S. Another of the victims, a 14-year-old Canadian girl, attempted to take her own life.

I don't want to make any definitive statements until all the facts are in, but White Tiger seems like a bit of a dick.

If it's a removable back cover, I wonder how hard it would be to have a third-party back cover...with a larger battery?

I'm skeptical about the Chinese state having anything to do with the Baltic cuts.

I could believe Russian intelligence maybe paying off some captain or other crewmember of a Chinese-flagged ship to drag an anchor.

But there's no need for the Chinese state to be involved for that, any more than various European states were involved when Russian intelligence was paying people there to perform acts of arson. Like, China isn't a hive mind.

And in the South China Sea, China doesn't need any Russian involvement if it wants to cut cables. It's not like there's some special expertise that Russia has in severing cables.

Finally, while even actually accidental, as well as the risk of "accidental" cuts are a real problem, we still haven't seen solid proof that any cut has been part of an intentional sabotage project. Speculation, yes, and a motive, yes, and some were very suspicious, but proof, not that I'm aware of. I realize that it's hard to prove intent, but also important to keep perspective. The methods for countering accidental cuts, "accidental" cuts, and wartime cuts are probably going to be different, so assessing their relative risk accurately is gonna be important.

“HS2 has made Britain a laughing stock in terms of its ability to deliver big infrastructure projects, and it has to end. This will set out the way we will do that,” a source told the PA news agency.

Ten years back:

https://www.raconteur.net/project-management-2015/britains-most-successful-megaprojects

Infrastructure is not “the new rock ‘n’ roll”. However, if it were, then with a seminal project management playlist ranging from Heathrow Terminal 5, via the Olympic Park and Crossrail, on perhaps towards Thames Tideway Tunnel and the HS2 high-speed rail link, the best of British is fast becoming a greatest hits for the 21st century.

Recent project history has placed Britain in a unique position of global influence, according to Professor Andrew Davies at University College London’s Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. “Over the past decade or so, the UK has transformed the way megaprojects are delivered, moving away from a world of fixed-price contracts, risk transfer, lowest-cost tendering and adversarial relationships,” he says.

For Professor Davies, who specialises in the management of projects, the market has witnessed the emergence of a “flexible megaproject delivery model”, initiated by Heathrow’s T5.

“The UK has created an institutional environment for delivering megaprojects in a radically new way. The United States and many European countries are watching and learning,” he says.

I'm not entirely convinced that either the "everyone is sitting in awe at the feet of the master" or the "we're a global laughingstock" statements about HS2 are quite true.

The advert shows a man with flowing hair involved in a car chase and crash that results in his and an identical, caramel-coloured car sandwiched on top of each other, like a Twix.

Five complaints issued against the advert said it encouraged dangerous driving and was irresponsible.

Now I know where those "This stunt is performed by a trained professional. Please do not try this at home" disclaimers come from.

Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn't do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn't see anti-immigrant sentiment.

Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, "Looking Backward":

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

Caption:

They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

c/amish on Lemmy.

You want !community@instance and it'll make an appropriate link.

!amish@lemmy.world

The title is a bit click-baity.

Steam had a setting where it would only run Proton on games on which it had been verified to work. Some people would inadvertently flip this setting off. Now the setting is gone, so they can't accidentally do this.

If your phone is Android, NewPipe is an open-source, third-party client that permits setting quality. It's on F-Droid (the big open-source app repository) if you use that, and probably on Google Store as well.

Thanks.

EDIT: There isn't an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

I'm not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won't run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

It really depends on how one is applyng mods. Bethesda does have their own mod site and in-game support for modding, and that's pretty straightforward (and the only option on consoles). That will limit what mods are available.

I do kind of wish that there were one cross-platform open-source universal "game mod" program that could support multiple online services. Would like to have Wabbajack-like functionality (apply a whole set of curated, tested-together mods) as a base too, as that'd lower the bar.

If you use Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-quality/

We were also running transponders on tankers even when they were refueling aircraft around Ukraine (albeit in friendly airspace).

The refuelled aircraft (at least some of which were F-35s, if not all, as someone geolocated a picture during the conflict) were not running transponders, though (and in the case of the picture of the F-35, had the radar reflectors removed).

Fair enough.

I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:

        $ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
    --embed-subs
    --embed-metadata
    --embed-chapters
    --embed-thumbnail
    --sponsorblock-mark=all
    $


  

That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.